Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the new empire -- Informal empire and continental East Asia, January-June 1950 -- Containing the Soviet empire : the North Atlantic triangle and the Korean War, 1950-1951 -- Defending Southeast Asia : informal empire and containment in Vietnam, 1950-1953 -- The North Atlantic triangle, China, and the Korean armistice negotiations, 1951-1953 -- The political economy of containment and detente, 1953-1954 -- A clash of empires : the Indochina conference, 1954.…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Spelling and Transliteration; Introduction; 1 De-Stalinization and Soviet Patriotism: Ukrainian Reactions to East European Unrest in 1956; 2 Friendship in the Soviet Empire: Salvaging International Socialism in Eastern Europe after 1956; 3 The Limits of De-Stalinization: The Prague Spring and the End of the Thaw in 1968; 4 Making Enemies: Historical Memory and the Ethnic Foundations of Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1968-1980; 5 A Prelude to Perestroika: Solidarity and Soviet Patriotism, 1980-1985.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Germany: immigration, refugees, and unification -- "Marianne and the rabbits": the French obsession -- Britain and the "immigrant wave" -- The Yugoslav tragedy: forced migration and ethnic cleansing -- The end of the Soviet Empire -- The politics of the birthrate in socialist Romania -- A generation of demographic debate in the United States -- American political interests and population statistics -- Canada: civil fissures -- Development, migration, and fertility -- Refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants -- Islamic fundamentalism.…”

Table of Contents: “…On the Invisibility of Ukrainian Women's Writing in the Soviet Empire -- 2. How Can a Ukrainian Woman Write? …”
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Table of Contents: “…The ideological partition of Europe -- The militarization of containment -- East-West global rivalries in the Eisenhower years -- From Chapultepec to Castro, the United States and Latin America, 1945-1962 -- The rise and fall of detente, 1962-1979 -- Regional rivalries and Cold War conflicts in the Middle East, 1945-1975 -- Asia recuperates from the ravages of war -- The inter-American system since the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Africa: the travails of independence -- The decline and fall of the Soviet Empire -- European unity and disunity -- Economic development and strategic evolution in Asia -- Diplomacy and war in the Middle East -- Epilogue: A world of nations in the era of globalization.…”

Table of Contents: “…Africa -- Anglo-American relations -- Antinuclear movement -- Antiwar movement -- Arms control -- China policy -- Cold War conclusion -- Congress and foreign policy -- Cuba -- Cuban missile crisis -- Decolonization -- Democracy imperiled -- Diem -- France -- Glasnost and perestrokia -- Gorbachev -- Hiss -- Hungary -- JFK and LBJ -- Korean War -- McCarthyism -- Middle east -- Military balance -- Monolithic communism -- National liberation -- Nicaragua -- Nixon and Kissinger -- Ostpolitik -- Power vacuum -- Reagan doctrine -- Reagan's transformation -- Reagan's victory -- Soviet empire -- Stalin -- Team B -- Third World -- Tito -- War powers resoultion.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Proving it works: from the early beginnings to stunning success -- Early Developments -- Gandhi: defeating the British Empire -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism -- Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare -- Wheeheelchairs versus tanks -- Defeating the Soviet Empire -- Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus communist dictators -- The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German communists -- Recent victories of a growing movement -- "Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian Women Overthrow a Dictator -- Nonviolence in the Arab Spring -- Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams -- The time to act -- Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action for the first time in Christian history -- The moral equivalent of war.…”

Table of Contents: “…Interests; 8. The Soviet Empire: An Enduring Competitor; 9. Priorities among U.S. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Furtado, Jr. and Michael Hechter -- Center-periphery relations in the Soviet Empire : some interpretive observations / S.N. …”

Table of Contents: “…Dragnich -- Pt.III. The Soviet Empire: rise and fall. Binding to the corpse / Matija Bećković -- New materials on the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 / Richard Pipes -- Yezhov's men, or how to be rational but wrong / Robert Conquest -- The Cold War in Sub-Saharan Africa: a reappraisal / Peter William Ratliff -- Solzhenitsyn, Havel, and the historical moment / Edward E. …”

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Table of Contents: “…The long peace ; The general ; The crisis of complexity ; Henry Kissinger's network of power ; Into the valley ; The fall of the Soviet Empire ; The triumph of Davos Man ; Breaking the Bank of England -- Part VIII: The Library of Babel. 9/11/2001 ; 9/15/2008 ; The administrative state ; Web 2.0 ; Coming apart ; Tweeting the revolution ; 11/9/2016 -- Part IX: Conclusion: facing Cyberia. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Crosscurrents of crisis in 1970s America : trouble abroad, corruption at home, conservatism and the distrust of government, economic insecurity, turning inward -- The rising tide of equality and democratic reform : women in the public sphere, women in the private sphere, the many frontiers of equality, political reform, resistance -- The spread of market values : a sea change of principles, the economy goes south, globalization's gathering speed, from citizenship to deregulation, market solutions for every problem, a freer market, a coarser culture -- The retreat of empires and the global advance of the market : the emergence of human rights, European empires and Southern Africa, the Soviet Empire, the American empire, the Israeli exception, the retreat of the state, China and the hollowing out of socialism -- Resistance to the new hyper-individualism : the environmentalist challenge, religious resurgence at home, religious resurgence in Israel, religious resurgence in the Muslim world, Jimmy Carter as a man of his times -- More and less equal since the 1970s : evidence to the contrary, inclusiveness ascending, markets persisting, unrestrained consumption, inequality rising.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Siberian ruptures: dilemmas of ethnography in imperial situation / Sergey glebov ; Concepts of Ukrainian folklore and the transition from imperial Russia to Stalin's Soviet empire / Angela Rustemeyer ; No love affair: Ingush and Chechen imperial ethnographies / Christian Dettmering ; National inventions: the imperial emancipation of the Karaites from jewishness / Mikhail Kizilov.…”
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